The Green Fairy Book, The Crystal Coffin, sentence 35
On the floor stood two large crystal boxes opposite each other, and these attracted his curiosity at once.
Who acts: these · What happens: stand, attract · To what, where: two large crystal boxes, floor, curiosity
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crystal Coffin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (these), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 floor | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 floor | det |
| 3 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stood | obl |
| 4 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 boxes | nummod |
| 6 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 boxes | amod |
| 7 | crystal | crystal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 boxes | compound |
| 8 | boxes | box | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 stood | obj |
| 9 | opposite | opposite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 boxes | amod |
| 10 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 other | det |
| 11 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 opposite | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 attracted | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 attracted | cc |
| 14 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 15 attracted | nsubj |
| 15 | attracted | attract | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stood | conj |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 curiosity | nmod:poss |
| 17 | curiosity | curiosity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 attracted | obj |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 once | case |
| 19 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 15 attracted | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | two large crystal boxes | the floor | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent box=Theme on floor=Destination | ||||
| 2 | attract | past | these | floor's curiosity | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent curiosity=Patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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